America's Civil War
History 393
Study Questions
Professor John C. Willis
 
 
The Realities of Division

 

1.  How did the new leaders of the Confederacy defend their region's political innovations? 

2.  What potential economic and military advantages and disadvantages emerge from examining the data on Southern farms, population density, and slaveholding? 

3.  How did Lincoln attempt to defuse the potentially explosive secession crisis with his first inaugural address? 

4.  Why did both sides struggle to gain the support of the border states?